Cal88 said:
The death of 40,000 women and children in Gaza is a statistic, but the death of a single CEO is a tragedy.
I used to comment on that disconnect that as a kid:
"Mom, why was an entire nation so sad when JFK was assassinated yet no one cares that much about this high school yearbook looking issue of Life magazine filled with photos of every American soldier killed in Vietnam last week?"
"The death of an individual can have a powerful effect on our emotions, but as numbers rise so does our indifference. Why?
"If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will." These are the words of a woman whose acts of charity and kindness earned her sainthood Mother Teresa.
They exemplify one of the most baffling aspects of the human response to the plight of others. While most of us will see a single death as a tragedy, we can struggle to have the same response to large-scale loss of life. Too often, the deaths of many simply become a statistic.
The millions of lives lost in natural disasters, wars or to famine, for example, grow too large to fathom."
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